Category Archives: data visualization

Hans Rosling, Edutainer

Posted on February 9, 2017 by GilPress

In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ Rosling tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, … Continue reading →

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U.S. Doctors and Politics

Posted on October 11, 2016 by GilPress

On average, the specialties with the highest salaries tend to have the most Republicans. Salary  $200k-$450k The New York Times: In surgery, anesthesiology and urology, for example, around two-thirds of doctors who have registered a political affiliation are Republicans. In … Continue reading →

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Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years

Posted on January 23, 2016 by GilPress

    Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done … Continue reading →

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A Visual History of Human Knowledge (TED Talk)

Posted on November 16, 2015 by GilPress

Manuel Lima is the author of  The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge. In this TED Talk, Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data — from languages to dynasties — using trees of information.

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Apple is in a Category All by Itself (#dataviz)

Posted on June 7, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Data Science Central

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Jeffrey Heer on the Future of Data Visualization (Video)

Posted on March 2, 2015 by GilPress

Baking more “design smarts” into analysis and decision-making tools Re-think basic user interfaces (tool automatically recommends interesting views) Show data variation, not design variation (Edward Tufte) How might our tools spur us to exercise skepticism and consider new questions? Charting … Continue reading →

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Data & The New Era of Interactive Storytelling–Strata+Hadoop 2014 (Video)

Posted on October 20, 2014 by GilPress

  Data is an evolving story. It’s not a static snapshot of a point in time insight. With data from internal and external sources constantly updating, we are evolving from rear-view mirror dashboard views into an era of interactive Storytelling. … Continue reading →

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Dogbert Recommends a Dashboard

Posted on February 11, 2014 by GilPress
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Google Music Timeline (Data Visualization)

Posted on January 24, 2014 by GilPress

Google Research Labs The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe … Continue reading →

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Taxonomy of Comic Book Characters (#Dataviz)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by GilPress

  Source: Tim Leong See more Information is Beautiful awards here and here      

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